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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost StadiumMax Boucherat|authortitle=Tom Palmer The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read We meet Lori on his own. He loves the short but exciting stories, and first evening she's got the easy-house to herself – no neighbour topop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-read text. With this book thoughbreaking eleven year old, the temptation to turn out the lights and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resiston her lonesome. It begins as What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a boy's own adventure. Three boysblanket fort, Lucasshe has one main intention, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan that is to start their summer holidays log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a high notehit in Lori's world. Their local football club But first Lori has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time and spend a tiny inkling that this stormy night camping doesn't find herself entirely on the pitchher own, and then she finds something even more spooky. My son immediately realised For the football pitch would server she and her bestie and nobody else should be the perfect place able to camp outenter shows signs of tampering. It is difficult to get into When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but once there, it would be like being and her safe place in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everythingthe game has been doctored – well, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There where is only one problem. Places that are very difficult a girl to get into can also be very difficult to get out of...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BrockRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Anthony McGowanCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=The events of the badger bait are horrifying. Thankfully the author does not feel the need to give us all the gory detail, but in a sense, he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaid. Everything about this book is extremely realistic. I am an adult, and this book had my stomach in knots. It isn't just what happens to the animals, but the psychological terror directed at the boys as well. This is made more intense by the level of character development in this book. McGowan has created characters with such depth 'I can't help wondering if he has based any hear the song of this on real children. Perhaps not the badger baiting part, but the inner turmoil created by poverty, shattered families, and the responsibility of being a caretaker at an early age as well many other personality traits which are so true to life it is difficult to believe you are reading fictionsea. The characters in this book are so genuine, I feel as if I know them. My son also commented on how much he liked certain characterscall of the deep, a sure sign that the author has succeeded answering beat in making the characters real to the readermy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Cat Clarke|title=Falling|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Falling'' is Rosevear, a book that I liked for some reasonsremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and disliked for othersplundering the wrecks. It Mira, like her mother before her, is very short one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and terribly bleak romanceany treasure that lies within. Anna seems But when the Council Watch lays a trap to have it all. She is popular, prettyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriend, CamMira's father. I'm afraid I never warmed Desperate to Anna though. She comes across save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as one of those people who feel the world revolves around them. Self centred charming as she he issecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she does truly care for sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her best friend Tillyfather, perhaps more than she realises. It all comes together in tragic misunderstanding on as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the night heart of Camthe smuggler's big partyterritory, a party he never wanted Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have, but that Anna pushed him intosave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa GregoryHarry Allen|title=StormbringersChildren of the Sun

|summary=Luca Vero, his servant Frieze, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of the end of the worldshe is a talented singer. Accompanied by Lady Isolde Life is hard and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before the mysterious Johann, a young body claiming food is difficult to be called come by God. He's followed by a horde of children who he's leading on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Even though his grandiose claims that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca Seo and her friends Nari and Isolde believe him - could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading the childrenMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and Luca edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and Isolde, into tragedy?kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithAlexia Casale|title=The Fury: The DirectorSing if you Can's Cutt Dance

|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as 's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a zombie book without zombieslife-changing disability too, but that''. This book has several things s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in common with the zombie genre; a group middle of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world dance performance that wants was going to destroy themchange her life. Unlike But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the typical zombie bookpity stares, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they and desperate to get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge back to rip them apart, and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affectedlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Parents murder their children Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything just the day to destroy themday traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. After they have killed them So even though she can't dance anymore, they will go back might she be able to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with whatsing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithSimon Fox|title=My Friend the EnemyDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's 1941. Peter wishes the war away every single day. His father Late one night Graham Blake is away fighting. They rarely hear late back from him. Mr flipping Bennett is always at his house. Making sure shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and his mother are managing, apparently. That's not what join him on the other children are sayingrun. They say Peter's mother get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is Mr Bennett's fancy woman. And they bully Peter about it. Despite farms lying all aroundarrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, there isn't much food. Everything is rationedand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190843581X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenLex Croucher|title=This Northern Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Kate is not happy. Still raw from the disaster with Sam, she's been whisked away on a long holiday with her parents to a remote Hebridean island. Even discounting a broken heart, this is not the type of holiday a vivacious teenage girl wants to go on. And there's more. Kate's parents have been rowing of late. And she knows that this holiday is a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. It's not something she wants to sit Gwen and observe, day after day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820692</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=Yellowcake|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In ''Yellowcake'', a traveller boy uses three items to reunite an old man with his memories. A boy with a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up Art Are Not in their harbour. Rapunzel gets a makeover in which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of the Dead became the Ferrywoman. And more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Levithan and Andrea Cremer|title=InvisibilityLove|rating=4.5

|summary=Stephen is cursed with invisibility. He's never been seen by anyoneWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, even his parentsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Elizabeth isn't invisible In this story, but sometimes she wishes she was. After problems back homeGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she's hoping much to make a new start in New York City by blending into the background. Then she meets Stephentheir mutual disgust! Gwen, and can you see him. What , is it about her thatin love with Bridget (the kingdom's so special? The two fall for only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other hard - but , when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in a world full of spells and curseswhich they can both truly be themselves, does love stand or are they destined to live a chancelie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348879</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine LongshoreNick Brooks|title=TarnishPromise Boys

|summary=Anne Boleyn is coming back to court. After suffering embarrassment and exile, Anne is not about to let this second chance slip through her fingers. But When the trickery principal (headmaster) of court life Urban Promise Prep school is difficult to navigatemurdered, and telling friend from foe can be three boys find themselves called into the difference between social success and becoming a pariahpolice station as suspects. Luckily she Each, seemingly, has the help a grudge of Thomas Wyattsome description against Principal Moore, poet and infamous womanisereach could have been there at the time of his murder. He promises to make Anne the most popular woman at court But who killed him, and when Anne starts to play his gamewhy, things start to escalate far further than anyone ever imagined. For not only does Anne manage to get and if any of the court eating out of her handboys are innocent, but the King is starting will they be able to sit up and take notice too...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116964</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Robinson1919635017|title=NowhereA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=There are 100 teenagers trapped in a prison for crimes they donSolomon Klyne isn't remember a bad lad, so why is he running around London committinga series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Does anyone know theyBut I're there? What do ll answer the people holding them there want? And will they ever break out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014134654X</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Krispy WhispersDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesTeens |summary=''A woman stops you Ant is in the road Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and gazes fearfully into is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the pram. "Your babies are not humanfootball team," she says. Then she runs offand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in re all fired up, straining at the nest? Are they really? Reallyleash only a single-sex school can form, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''Krispy Whispers''t know what his score is, a series of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgesswhere his achievements in that regard lie. You also get He's had a girl dreaming of richescasual relationship, a lonely woman who finds a pet secret one, for several months now, and gets a boyfriend too closely together for mere coincidenceso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And a priest that's mostly because of who actually meets God. And a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because youhe'll need to keep up..s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Fine1800901232|title=Blood FamilyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Blood Family'' is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the companion novel village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to Anne Fine's ''The Devil Walks''be missed. Both books feature a boy locked away from Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the world mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and what happens when he is rescued. ''The Devil Walks'' is the other girls were not going to work in a Gothic shiver taleshop, set they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the past but ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It''Blood Family'' is a contemporary story, exploring what happens to children who have been abused s quite possible that Hanh and how their lives are affectedher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532405</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex GutteridgePatrice Lawrence|title=Last Chance AngelNeedle|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess turns up at the gates of Heaven a few days early, causing a major headache for Darren the Angel of Death. To keep her quiet, he agrees that she can go back to Earth in an invisible form to see her friends and family and say goodbye. Can she find closure, or even a way to stay alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Skilton|title=Bruised|rating=5

|summary=Imogen Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a black belt pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in Tae Kwon Do. Sheher son Blake's her grandmasterold room while he's top studentat uni. AgileSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, strongyou might perhaps think, and confidentthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, she has dedicated years and is making something full of love for her life to becoming this good. Then she gets the chance to use her skills when younger sister – a younger sister she's involved in an attempted hold-up at allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a diner - store detective, and freezes completely. The gunman gets shotthen force people to give her two days off school, and when she blames herselfshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, losing all of her confidence. What good what exactly happens is Tae Kwon Do in the real world if she not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can't bring herself to do anything with it?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419703870</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinAnn Sei Lin|title=Rules of SummerRebel Skies|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rory wanted to get away from Kurara has spent her motherentire life as a servant on the Midori, even if it means working as an errand girl for a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the wealthy Rule familyEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Isabel Rule just wanted However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a summer romance Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a hot guypower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. I wanted Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a fun read with engaging charactersshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Guess which of She joins Himura aboard the three Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of us was disappointed?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001642</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire MerleMarcus Sedgwick|title=The FallWrath

|summary=In the futureMeet Fitz, a little way from now, people fall into one young Scottish lad full of two campsfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, the ''Pures'' and the ''Crazies''he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and society has changed almost beyond recognitionwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. The distinction is made through They were half of a scientific testdesultory school band, but Ana has discovered something about Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the test which is alarmingearth. And when Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the rest end of the country finds world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out what she knowsthe truth? Well, there will be uproarnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571282911</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenTori Bovalino|title=The Moon and More|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emeline is a conscientious student, works hard for her family's realty business, and loves her long-term boyfriend Luke. But as college draws near she wonders if there is something she has missed by living year-round at the beach. When other people come to the beach, they get to leave their real selves behind and try on a new persona. Her mom had her young and has always tried to provide Emeline with everything she could need. When a filmmaker’s assistant, Theo, comes into town, Emeline is intrigued by him and his very different New York City lifestyle. Maybe she does want something more than what her old life has offered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Wein|title=Rose Under Fire|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=There's a list of names on the title page of this extraordinary and moving book. Note it well: these seventy-four women are real. As a group they were known as the Ravenbrück Rabbits, and they were the victims of medical experiments carried out to help improve surgery for German soldiers wounded in the field. Little or no anaesthetic, poor aftercare: these things, while horrible, fit in with what we know of the concentration camps. What many will not know is the truly gut-wrenching fact that sometimes the doctors did not even bother to follow up on the experiments they carried out. All that pain, infection and disability (for those lucky enough to survive the procedures), and all for nothing. They didn't even help the enemy soldiers recover from their injuries. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Shipwrecked|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Delaney and her friends from her dance school are really excited to have the opportunity to perform on a South Pacific cruise ship. But when a storm hits and leaves them stranded on an island, they're left fighting to survive - and fighting with each other, as tensions build when they start to panic about whether they'll be rescued. As if that wasn't bad enough, the island has a dark secret - will they learn it before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Miller|title=ParallelDevil Makes Three

|summary=Imagine waking up every day Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to find yourself in do — especially when she gets a new reality, an alternate future derived from request for over a small variation in one of those what-if moments hundred books that populate every day of your lifeshe has to deliver herself. Some of these moments are easy to identify: What makes it worse is the moment you confirm your university choices, man who requested the moment you meet the person whobooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school'll become your best friends headmaster, the moment you tell someone you love themand a man Tess hates. Others are more subtle As a petty act of revenge for making her find and harder to definedeliver such a large request, but they can have just as much an influence Tess sticks post-it notes on your future. This is each of the books, scribbled with the reality ugliest insults she can think of Abby Barnes. They're never meant to reach him, an eighteen year old whose life of course. Her plan is constantly being warped to get her anger out like this, and changed by the actions and decisions of a seventeen-year-old version of then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her from a parallel world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407135120</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperPhilip Reeve|title=The Utterly Dark is Rising Sequenceand the Face of the Deep

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=As In a childword, I read The Grey Kingrich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequencebeyond the Scillies. I loved There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the book so much it topped my Christmas list Dark family that has to keep watch for yearsmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but sadly Santa never deliveredwhere no ship dare sail. As an adult I finally bought The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a childHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's bookfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and it is brilliant as book for childrenhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adult. I'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may be.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie McGarryKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dare You ToJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=SeventeenJulia, our pre-year-old Beth Risk knows that her mother would face jail if anyone found out the truth about her. She's trying to look after her mother the best she can - until her uncle comes to the rescue. Except Beth doesn't want rescuingteen heroine, and only goes has been packed off with her uncle to keep him parents and their cat from exposing her mother. Living with him, she meets town golden boy Ryan Stone, who asks her out on a dare. What starts as an instant dislike on her part, though, turns to attraction, and she finds that Ryan has depths no-one else knows about. Can this mismatched couple help each other the family home in SW England to find happiness?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComsey|title=Flutter|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new town, she falls be lighthousekeepers for a girl who isn't interested summer, in herthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Lily Here be Vikings, though, has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffronkind of Scottish island. As Jesse, she starts Dad is going to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get be automating the girl? Additionallylantern, why which is Lily so resistant to any sort of harmhis specialist thing, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Brett|title=Everything is Fine (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Esther Armstrong is having problems at home. Her while mum and dad keep arguing, will be leaving her younger brother is driving her crazy, and she's reduced career in algae behind to writing letters to her older brother about hunt the situation as he's not aroundelusive Greenland shark. When she finds some letters from a soldier to his girlfriend And Julia, well, she starts trying to find out what happened to them - will be homesick and alone – until she work it out, and also get her own life back on track?suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379497</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon JonesJonathan Stroud|title=Dead JealousThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy Scarlett McCain is a rationalist. Her sweatshirt says so: ''GOD IS DEAD''an outlaw, it proclaims. She's been swearing blind she wouldn't attend her mother rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and stepfather's handfasting ceremony at Faith Houses to wander the annual pagan festival. It's all stuff wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and nonsenseshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then her best friend - and secret love - Michael goes she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and gets a girlfriend and jealousy gets darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the better mythical Free Isles of Poppythe London Lagoon. SuddenlyTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the festival cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the handfasting seem much Free Isles, but will they be any more inviting. Once accepted there, Poppy meets a strange girl at than they are in the shores rest of Scariswater Lake. When Beth turns up dead, Poppy is sure she has been murdered. And the police don't seem to care, putting it down as an accident. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408327546</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bethany WigginsMercedes Helnwein|title=StungSlingshot

|summary=Fiona wakes up confused and disorientedGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She's As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in her bedroom but her bedroom has never looked like this. Itpeople's filthylives. And abandoned. Where is her family? And how has But when she come to have defends a strange tattoo on random boy in her class with her hand? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Fragments|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - the middle book in a series tends to be fillerslingshot, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliant, I though it was going to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book her simple existence is mind-blowingchanged for good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bridget Tyler|title=Drummer Girl|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy is really pleased when Harper McKenzie decides to start talking to No longer can she spend her again and suggests forming a band. From thentime writing novels in solitude, for her life gets increasingly wonderful as they recruit three other girls, enter now has a talent show, and make boy in it to the finals. Parties, fame, and success await - until everything comes crashing downthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. What went wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776926</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allen ZadoffT L Huchu|title=Boy NobodyThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zach Abram has a choice - death or death. He can either choose the death of others or his own death. At the age of 12, his parents were killed and he was abducted by Ropa Moyo is a shadowy American government agencyghostalker, trained as an assassin using Zimbabwean magic (and give a simple a choice kill and keep killing or die. He is told that he is a patriot, that those he kills are enemies bit of the state, and as such deserve Scottish pragmatism) to die. But this is very state which will kill him if he makes one mistake. Zach is 16 now, but he isn't Zach anymore, he is whoever take messages from the agency wants him to be, and dead of Edinburgh for 2 years he has gone from one target to anothertheir living relatives. He has used his youth as cover, befriending the children Ever since she dropped out of his future victims and killed without remorse or emotion. But something is different this timeschool, he has started she's been using it to experience feelings and question his assignment. This will be his most dangerous mission yetsupport not only herself, and if he fails he will have more to fear from his own side than his enemies. But if he succeeds what will the cost be to himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408327600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon|title=The Watcher in the Shadows|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Good and bad luck combined have forced Irene but her younger sister and her family – mother Simone and insular younger brother Dorian – to live in the Normandy village of Blue Bayaging grandmother. ItHowever, there's a way to relieve an evil stalking the poverty her deceased father left them in, as Simone is now housekeeper to Lazarus Jann, a mysterious elderly businessman who lives in a mansion peopled by countless automata, and the isolated shell ruined streets of what used to be his healthy wife. Irene herself has met the maid's brotherEdinburgh, which targeting the village network has immediately inflated into a long-term romance. Dorian is happy enough to be errand-boy for Janncity's peculiar correspondencechildren. So farSoon, so interesting. But Ropa is there a dark secret to be had with pulled into the clockwork toys keeping Jann company? Is the tale of search for a ghost on missing boy at the lighthouse islet true? And what else could be implied in the book's very title? In such a small village, for anyone to hold a secret it has to be very big, and very powerful…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001655</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Sarra Manning|title=Diary request of a Crush: French Kiss|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Edie moves his dead mother. She will end up to Manchester discovering an occult library and starts college she’s a little scared – scared to be in a new town with new people, realise that the world of magic is far bigger and none of her old friendsmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But then Will she meets a trouser-shape by find the name of Dylan missing children and everything changes. She develops a huge crush on the handsome but complicated boybring an end to this evil, and chronicles or will it claim her feelings for him in her diary. Well that explains the title, then.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001561</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanKristen O'Neal|title=Noble ConflictLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Kaspar believes Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the Alliance with a whole heartrest of her life. Who wouldnShe joins ''t? In the face Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgency, the Alliance's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped other teens living with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killedchronic illnesses. They're incapacitatedtalk about their troubles and help each other out, given medical treatment while also providing an escape to just joke and imprisonedmess around. Guardians like Kaspar are trained When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possiblechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking KasparShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's, you can see how measured house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and ethical for that werewolf to be the Alliance's response seemsgirl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Suzy Cox|title=The Dead Girls Detective Agency|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Dead Girls Detective Agency takes us with Charlotte Feldman, an average school girl who is pushed under a train and wakes up to find that the afterlife for murdered teenagers is a downtown hotel from where they must solve their cases and get the killer to confess in order to move Move on. I’d call it a fresh and original take on the whodunit if I hadn't seen variants of it before. However, it does have individuality. The sole condition for moving on is solving the murder – there’s no pansying around finding absolution or atoning for transgressions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106598</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lynne Thomas|title=Jelly Cooper: Alien|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jelly Cooper is just turning fourteen. But excitement about her birthday is taking second place to sheer exhaustion. For weeks, Jelly has been having recurring nightmares that leave her shaken and afraid. And it's all taking a toll on her - her friends Humphrey and Agatha are beginning to get worried. Add the night terrors to the figurative nightmare of school, a crush on a boy so cool and gorgeous that Jelly sees no world in which he'd fancy her back, and a cheerleader out to humiliate her at every turn, and you can see that Jelly's life could be better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00C4Y3TZS</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this book, the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpses, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machines. They possess a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but a great deal of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible for scientists to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is to control a few and have these control the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didn't work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]